Concept art for a metrocop ; the trench coat design was inspired by the uniforms of the Schutzstaffel | SS.

Boundaries of the planned " Greater Germanic Reich " based on various, only partially systematised target projections ( e. g. Generalplan Ost ) from Nazi Germany | state administration and the Schutzstaffel | SS leadership sources.

Das Schwarze Korps ( The Black Corps ), the official Schutzstaffel | SS newspaper.

Election day: police officer and Schutzstaffel | SS man on patrol in Berlin

Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the Freikorps, including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future Kommandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

That same year, he joined the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) as an SS-Führer ( SS-Leader ); his SS number was 168.

Heydrich ultimately ordered Schutzstaffel ( SS ) researchers to investigate the rumour.

The Schutzstaffel (, translated to Protection Squadron or defence corps, abbreviated SS — or Runic " ᛋᛋ " with stylized " Armanen " sig runes ) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ).

That same year, the Stosstrupp was expanded to a national level, and renamed successively the Sturmstaffel ( storm squadron ), then the Schutzkommando ( protection command ), and finally the Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

He visited Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or " SS " leader Heinrich Himmler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

Historian Walter Laqueur writes that even though Haider welcomed former Nazis at his meetings and went out of his way to address Schutzstaffel ( SS ) veterans, the FPÖ is not a fascist party in the traditional sense, since it has not made anti-communism an important issue, and does not advocate the overthrow of the democratic order or the use of violence.

Originally an adjunct to the SA, the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) was placed under the control of Heinrich Himmler in part to restrict the power of the SA and their leaders.

On 30 June 1934, Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), arrived at Bad Wiessee where he personally placed Ernst Röhm and other high-ranking SA leaders under arrest.

The visual appearance of Darth Vader in his all-black uniform combined with his devout obedience to the Emperor has allusion to the black-uniformed Nazi Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

Karl-Otto Koch ( August 2, 1897 – April 5, 1945 ), a Standartenführer ( Colonel ) in the German Schutzstaffel ( SS ), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, and later also served as a commander at the Majdanek concentration camp.

Many occult ideas found favour with Heinrich Himmler who, unlike Hitler, had a great interest in mysticism, but the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) under Himmler emulated the structure of Ignatius Loyola's Jesuit order rather than the Thule Society.

Many German politicians opposed its formation fearing GSG 9 would rekindle memories of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

* The Schutzstaffel ( SS ), Sturmabteilung ( SA ), and Hitlerjugend ( HJ ) of Nazi Germany

It thus became part of the concentration camp system, run by the SS Schutzstaffel but it was a special case.

On 12 February 1935 he joined the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) at ( Mitgliedsnr.

Located in Munich, the organisation was partly an office within the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) and responsible for certain family welfare programmes, and partly a society for Nazi leaders.

The plan was directed by, and named after, Schutzstaffel Sturmbannführer ( SS Major ) Bernhard Krüger, who set up a team of 142 counterfeiters from inmates at Sachsenhausen concentration camp at first, and then from other camps, especially Auschwitz.

Alois Brunner ( born 8 April 1912 ) was a German Schutzstaffel ( SS ) officer.

Brunner was a trouble-shooter for the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) and held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer ( Captain ) when he organized deportations to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France and Slovakia.

The Center found Gustav's army records and Nazi party membership, but did not uncover any connection to war crimes or the paramilitary organization, the Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

Clausen's failure in the elections and his unwillingness to actively assist in forming a Danish branch of the Schutzstaffel alienated his German supporters, and as such SS Obergruppenführer Dr. Werner Best, the Plenipotentiary of the German Reich for Denmark, convinced Clausen to step down as leader of the party and replaced him with a three man committee shortly after his return to Denmark.

Another song glorifies Nazi Rudolf Hess as a martyr and, in " Opa war Sturmführer " (" Grandpa was a Sturmführer "), Michael Regener, the band's leader, pays tribute to his grandfather, who was a Waffen Schutzstaffel ( SS ) officer.

The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich ( deputy to Heinrich Himmler ) and operated by the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) before and during World War II.

* Reichsführer-SS-title held by Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS Schutzstaffel.

Turn of the century German mystic and author Guido von List was a big influence on Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who introduced various ancient Germanic symbols ( filtered through von List's writings ) most thoroughly into the Schutzstaffel, including the stylized double Sig Rune ( von List's then-contemporary Armanen rune version of the ancient sowilo rune ) for the organization itself.

The SS-Ehrenring (" SS Honour Ring "), unofficially called Totenkopfring (" Skull Ring "), was an award of Heinrich Himmler's Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

One year later, SS ( Schutzstaffel ) Chief Heinrich Himmler promoted him to the rank of SS General ( SS-Gruppenführer ).

He then applied to join the Schutzstaffel, commanded by Heinrich Himmler.

From 9 November 1937 he also held a leading position ( Gruppenführer ) in the Schutzstaffel and the staff of the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler.

* Die Schutzstaffel als antibolschewistische Kampforganisation: An essay by Himmler

* Personal control of Himmler of Schutzstaffel

Himmler wanted to weaken the Wehrmacht and its mainly aristocratic leaders in order to strengthen his Schutzstaffel as a competitor to the regular German Army ( Heer ).

Himmler and Heydrich's grand plan was to fully absorb all the police and security apparatus into the structure of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

After his election, Windrip takes complete control over the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the Schutzstaffel.

However, he also did not sympathize with plots to overthrow Adolf Hitler, and never filed official protests over the treatment of civilians by the Schutzstaffel ( SS ).

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").